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Klaus Meinhardt
T. + 49 (0) 6101 9956000

Legal project management

“We already have lawyers. And project managers. So why do we need a project manager for finance and law?“

Quite simply: in order to have someone who successfully and efficiently manages the resolution of complex legal or financial tasks, because he is equally knowledgeable about both areas and thus able to combine specialist expertise and competently evaluate measures.

Possible projects:

Using innovative instruments for financing?
Restructuring to reduce your tax burden?
How to establish business operations abroad?
How to safeguard against financial and legal risks?

There are no general answers to questions like that. Only individual ones – tailored to your company, your environment, your objectives. Because something that is an advantage for tax reasons may be harmful from the civil law standpoint, and something that has a positive effect on your balance sheet may be detrimental to performance. Only a well-thought out combination of all factors will lead to the success you desire.

Finding experts – managing projects – implementing solutions

The more complex the task, the more specialists you need. But how can you put together a highly capable team for your project?

Option 1:

You laboriously search for suitable external personnel, build up internal capacities, overstrain your existing experts.

Option 2:

You retain a network of consultants and put up with the fact that its members are always commissioning one another mutually – even when capacities are limited, or when someone else can provide the same service with greater expertise or at less expense.

Option 3:

You entrust your project management to me. Then I am the one who puts together an appropriate team of experts, independently and only under an obligation to you and your assignment. In other words: You neither have to pay for an overpriced network of consultants nor for services that you do not even need. At the same time, your own specialists still have capacities available for their regular work.

And the most important aspect: I combine expertise with implementation competence to devise a solution that is made-to-measure for your special case. My in-depth legal knowledge, my extensive experience with innovative capital market instruments as well as many years of practical experience in the area of international financial services have qualified me for that role.

Regardless of whether you are an SME sector company that requires know-how or a large corporation that intends to manage a complex financial or legal project: I am at your disposal as a consultant as well as an on-site project manager or interim manager.

The advantages for you:

  • competent management of legal and financial matters worldwide
  • project management by an expert with well-founded interdisciplinary knowledge and many years of professional experience at well-known international companies
  • compilation and evaluation of specialist knowledge, concise analysis for the executive management
  • relieving the burden on the executive management
  • availability of extensive special know-how without having to build up internal capacities
  • no delay in regular operations due to overstressing of internal specialists and project managers
  • reduction of effort needed for co-ordination between various departments, consequently leading to cost reductions
  • streamlined handling
  • minimisation of risks to the company and liability threats to board members
  • especially for small and medium-sized enterprises: organisation and specialist liaison & support for all legal and financial matters abroad

All in all: I offer services that go well beyond the potential scope of a classic law office, but without the expense and deportment of a large international law firm.

As a lawyer, I render all my services subject to the strict statutory obligation of independence, confidentiality and exclusive representation of the interests of my clients.